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@JanvandenHemel
Jan van den Hemel
2 months
Some more TopoMation™ #B3D #Blender #Blender3D
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You can easily create clothes around your character by using the Sewing function of the Cloth sim. It works best if you use the settings demonstrated in the video. #blender #b3d
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4 random bevel / topology tips #B3D #Blender #Blender3D
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: You can easily create clothes around your character by using the Sewing function of the Cloth sim. It works best if you use the settings demonstrated in the video. #b3d
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#Blender Tip: You can easily create clothes around your character by using the Sewing function of the Cloth sim. It works best if you use the settings demonstrated in the video. #b3d
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Did you know the Cloth sculpting brush actually has 8 different deformation types? If you want to get the most out of this brush for sculpting clothes, you should definitely know about these. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Unlock the full potential of the Cloth sculpting brush in Blender by learning the 8 different deformation types it offers. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF:
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: In this video I show how to get from a default cube to a tufting pattern using some modeling and selection methods. If you want, you can bake the resulting geometry to a normal map. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: In this video we look at creating multiple twisted cables at once. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF:
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Previously we’ve explored using Alpha textures to sculpt details, and how to make such textures yourself. But what if you want to add intricate details to a curved or even cylindrical surface where you can’t use a texture stencil? #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: You can easily create clothes around your character by using the Sewing function of the Cloth sim. It works best if you use the settings demonstrated in the video. #B3D Also, take advantage of my summer sale!
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Jan van den Hemel
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Experimenting with fast blockout methods in #blender #b3d #blender3d (tutorial tomorrow, or today on Patreon!)
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: If you want an easy way to make a pillow, look no further! Taking advantage of both the Cloth modifier and the Cloth Brush, we can create a nice fluffy pillow in a couple of minutes. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Modeling from photos is a really fun way to quickly create photorealistic assets. One of the main tools to use here is the Knife Tool. In this video we look at the basics of this workflow. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #blender tip: Bridge vertices and edge loops to create holes in objects and complex smooth surfaces from just a few vertices. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Did you know the Cloth sculpting brush actually has 8 different deformation types? If you want to get the most out of this brush for sculpting clothes, you should definitely know about these.
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: There are some things that you'll find yourself modeling again and again. It can be useful to keep these topologies as assets for re-use. Then you can copy/paste them and wrap them on the surface of the object where you want them. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Creating realistic clothing for characters in Blender is easy with the Cloth sim's Sewing function. This tutorial video will show you how to use the right settings to achieve the best results and bring your characters to life with believable clothing. #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: When sculpting, knowing the keyboard shortcuts for Voxel and Quad remeshing is quite useful for smoothly working on your mesh without the performance drops that you might experience with Dyntopo. This video shows some tips on remeshing. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Rigging a piston doesn’t have to be hard! With just a couple of bones and bone constraints you’re all set. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #blender tip: Model an Easy Propeller #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: There are some things that you'll find yourself modeling again and again. It can be useful to keep these topologies as assets for re-use. #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Did you know the Cloth sculpting brush actually has 8 different deformation types? If you want to get the most out of this brush for sculpting clothes, you should definitely know about these. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Part 2 of the exciting "adding stuff without using booleans" series #b3d #blender
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender tip: Previously explored how to add details without using booleans. In some cases, you can see some shading artifacts where objects overlap (also known as “Z-fighting”). To solve this, we use one more modifier. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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#b3d tip: Since Blender 4.0 snapping has gotten a lot faster and more accurate, thanks to the new Base Point feature. In this video we look at how it works, and how it can help us.
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Jan van den Hemel
1 year
Daily #Blender Tip: Using the LoopTools options Curve and GStretch, we can quickly create interesting shapes. Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF: #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Using the LoopTools options Curve and GStretch, we can quickly create interesting shapes. #b3d Get the Blender Secrets e-book:
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Jan van den Hemel
1 year
Daily #Blender Tip: Did you know the Cloth sculpting brush actually has 8 different deformation types? If you want to get the most out of this brush for sculpting clothes, you should definitely know about these. More tips & free PDF: #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: With this technique you can even use a mouse to draw perfectly tapered curves, creating ornament details easily. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Making a Pillow in one minute! #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: With this technique you can even use a mouse to draw perfectly tapered curves, creating ornament details easily. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Rigging a piston doesn’t have to be hard! With just a couple of bones and bone constraints you’re all set. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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N-Gon to Quad modeling tips. I'm currently giving a discount on my book and video courses for one week on #blender #b3d #blender3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
In this video I cover how to draw in 3D with Grease Pencil, and how to turn that into a mesh. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
The mask brush is useful for creating intricate sculpted details on a cylindrical surface in #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
There are some things that you'll find yourself modeling again and again. It can be useful to keep topologies as assets for re-use. Then you can copy/paste them (from the Asset Browser for example) and wrap them on the surface of the object where you want them. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
4 years
How to create damaged concrete pillars (part 1/2) in Blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Because of some changes in Blender, since 3.1 making a pillow in 1 minute uses a slightly different method. Here is an updated video for Blender 3.1.2! #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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The basics of the Line Art Modifier #blender3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Don't delete the default cube today. Make it into a sofa. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
If you want to add intricate details to a curved or even cylindrical surface where you can’t use a texture stencil, masking can be very useful and fun if you like a more drawing-oriented workflow. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Here’s a quick tip for selecting patterns where you skip a few vertices, edges or faces in #blender #b3d .
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #blender tip: This is how we can use objects to cut edges in other objects in Blender. I recommend selecting the cutter object in the Outliner so you don’t have to change the view or risk selecting the wrong thing. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: In this video we explore how to get perfectly curved edges, using the Curve Stroke Method. You can also use this to cut panel lines, using the Crease brush. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #blender tip: Methods for Adding Edge Loops. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Draw in 3D with Grease Pencil! In this video I cover how to draw in 3D with Grease Pencil, and how to turn that into a mesh. In the next one, we’ll remesh and sculpt on it. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
How to draw in 3D with Grease Pencil, and how to turn that into a mesh in #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
If you want an easy way to make a pillow, look no further! Taking advantage of both the Cloth modifier and the Cloth Brush, we can create a nice fluffy pillow in a couple of minutes. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Using some hidden but powerful functionality in the Pose Brush in Sculpt Mode, we can create amazing looking folds in our sculpt with almost no effort. #B3D Get my ebook:
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: How to draw in 3D with Grease Pencil, and how to turn that into a mesh. Then, we can remesh it and sculpt on it. Watch part 2 here: #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: When sculpting, knowing the keyboard shortcuts for Voxel and Quad remeshing is quite useful for smoothly working on your mesh without the performance drops that you might experience with Dyntopo. This video shows some tips on remeshing. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
1 year
#b3d tip: Here’s a trick for adding a bunch of cables at once. More tips & free sample e-book:
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Adding details to a surface makes a hard surface object looks more interesting. But it’s often a lot of work to integrate objects that are added using boolean techniques with retopology. This technique is a bit of a hack that avoids retopology. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Using modifiers, it’s easy to create a rope that follows a curve. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: In a previous video we explored how to add details without using booleans. However in some cases, you can see some shading artifacts where objects overlap (Z-fighting). To solve this, we use one more modifier. Then things look perfect! #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: In this video we model a curtain in record time, using physics simulation as well as some fun selection tricks that you may not know about yet. #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
4 years
An easy way of drawing perfectly tapered curves on surfaces. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
10 months
#b3d tip: Do you want to make easy holes, that can also work in a Subdivision workflow? ⇨ Blender Secrets e-book and video course:
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
If you have two different objects that you want to mix, Like this arm 3D scan and a duplicate which has a displacement map on it, you can use something like “Morph Target” in Zbrush, in Blender! #blender #b3d #zbrush
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Let’s make a propellor in a few easy steps. Along the way you’ll learn about transform orientations and rotation methods. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: In this video we'll have a look at UV unwrapping a face in three different ways, in order to reduce stretching so we can prepare it for projection painting. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Quick Edit is a really artist-friendly tool for texture painting that combines Blender with your favorite 2D painting app. For example #krita but other apps work as well. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #blender tip: Alpha textures are black and white images that can either be used as masks or height maps, to easily sculpt details onto your model. #b3D
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
Bridge vertices and edge loops to create holes in objects and complex smooth surfaces from just a few vertices. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: When you rig an organic character, for better realism you can also use Shape Keys to add deformations. For example, when an arm flexes, the muscles should change the shape of the arm. Arm model made by Blendswap user Turboyoyo. #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #blender tip: Mixing Cloth Simulations and Weight Painting / Rigging... #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Vector Displacement Maps, for years an amazing feature in ZBrush, are now available in a Patch Build of Blender 3.5. For sculpting this is huge news. #B3D All relevant links: Go upvote the RightClickSelect post by @FrancisJasmin2 !
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Jan van den Hemel
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#b3d tip: Previously we’ve explored using Alpha textures to sculpt details, and how to make such textures yourself. But what if you want to add intricate details to a curved or even cylindrical surface? Free sample e-book: ⇨
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Knife Project has been featured in a couple of Blender Secrets videos before, but recently since Blender 2.93.4 the way it works has changed, making those videos somewhat obsolete. So! Here’s the new way it works... for now :-) #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Here are three scaling tips that may help you with insetting and extruding Faces in Blender. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
With this easy technique you can even use a mouse to draw perfectly tapered curves, creating ornament details. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Model a curtain in record time, using physics simulation as well as some fun selection tricks. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
4 years
Another way to create circular arrays in #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Previously we looked at using Normal Map Stamps to add detail to a robot character. This video shows how to create such Normal maps, so you can make them yourself. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: The Shear function is a useful tool when making architectural models such as windows. It allows you to extrude at 90° angles perfectly and easily. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Using the Mesh Inflate Filter in Sculpt Mode, we can quickly create the impression of hard surface panels on a base mesh. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Do you want to speed up your boolean cutting workflow in Blender? In this tutorial, we'll show you a lightning-fast method to perform boolean cuts using just one keyboard shortcut – no need for extra add-ons! #B3D
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Jan van den Hemel
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#b3d tip: The Sculpt Stroke Method keyboard shortcut was changed in Blender 4 to Alt+E (it was just E before). Here’s a quick reminder of the fun that is to be had with the various stroke methods when sculpting. Line and Curve strokes in particular are very useful for accurate
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Jan van den Hemel
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With this technique you can even use a mouse to draw perfectly tapered curves, creating ornament details easily. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Creating a toon shader with complete control over the colors is easy with just a couple of nodes. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF (which quite possibly has a discount for the book in it):
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Jan van den Hemel
5 years
A look at the new custom bevel profiles in #b3d Blender 2.82
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Daily #Blender Tip: Using textured lights is a great way to add more realism to your renders, making them look less like computer images and more like real life. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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How to make slice cuts in #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: By adding a few modifiers to a Plane, you can turn it into a nice beveled panel that you can quickly extrude to add details to for example a robot model. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: When sculpting, knowing the keyboard shortcuts for Voxel and Quad remeshing is quite useful for smoothly working on your mesh without the performance drops that you might experience with Dyntopo. This video shows some tips on remeshing. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
2 years
Using the Select Next Active selecting option, we can quickly model a skirt. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
3 years
How to draw tapered "ornamental" curves on surfaces in #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Using a Plane and some modifiers, we can quickly get a Cylinder that follows a Curve. The benefit of this is that you only have to edit the Plane to make the entire Cylinder detailed. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Grid Fill quickly fills the empty space between the loops you’ve made. This video shows you how to use it correctly, including some tips you may not know! #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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#Blender Tip: If you have two different objects that you want to mix, Like this arm 3D scan and a duplicate which has a displacement map on it, you can use something like “Morph Target” in Zbrush, in Blender! #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: When UV unwrapping, you're adding Edge Marks without seeing the result until you unwrap, in a way working blindly. Live Unwrap and Sync allow you to unwrap things while getting a live preview of the UV unwrapping in the 3D viewport. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Quick Edit is a really artist-friendly tool for texture painting that combines Blender with your favorite 2D painting app. Robot model from Renafox on Sketchfab. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Using textured lights is a great way to add more realism to your renders, making them look less like computer images and more like real life. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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#b3d tip: In the previous video we explored how to add details without using booleans. However in some cases, you can see some shading artifacts where objects overlap (also known as “Z-fighting”). To solve this, we use one more modifier. Then things look perfect!
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: Volumetric Fog adds a lot of mood to a scene! Luckily all it takes to set up is a couple of nodes. #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: In this second video about modeling from photos using the knife tool, we look at what to do when your photograph has perspective in it rather than being shot from the front. #B3D Free Blender Secrets Sample PDF
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Jan van den Hemel
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Daily #Blender Tip: With this technique you can even use a mouse to draw perfectly tapered curves, creating ornament details easily. Last day to take advantage of my summer sale! #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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In Sculpt Mode you can get perfectly curved edges, using the Curve Stroke Method. You can also use this to cut panel lines, using the Crease brush. #blender #b3d
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Jan van den Hemel
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There are some things that you'll find yourself modeling again and again. It can be useful to keep these topologies as assets for re-use. Then you can copy/paste them (from the Asset Browser!), and wrap them on the surface of the object where you want them. #blender #b3d
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